Economic Growth and Fiscal Austerity in Pakistan

Nadeem ul-Haque (Former Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission and former senior official at the International Monetary Fund)

Salman Shah (Former caretaker Finance Minister of Pakistan and economic advisor to the government)

Dr. Naved Hamid (Director of Center of Research in Economics and Business (CREB))

  • Posted On: January 19, 2017
  • Event Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • Event Date: 19th January 2017
  • Event Venue: CDPR, Lahore

Consortium for Development Policy Research (CDPR) hosted its sixth Lahore Policy Exchange talk on “Economic Growth and Fiscal Austerity in Pakistan.” Economic policy discussions in Pakistan have been dominated by the themes of revenue mobilisation and fiscal austerity. This has important implications for economic growth. While one view holds that austerity dampens growth, the other sees austerity as a safeguard against fiscal deficits and growth-slowing, unsustainable debt.

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